Note: this topic is from 10/14/2016. Thanks harpygoddess.
Posted on 10/14/2016 5:35:22 AM PDT by harpygoddess
Today is the anniversary of the Battle of Hastings in 1066, in which William the Conqueror initiated the Norman conquest of England by defeating the forces of the Anglo-Saxon King Harold, who was killed in the conflict (although there's been recent speculation that Harold survived). William, Duke of Normandy, had been promised the English throne by his cousin, Edward the Confessor (reigned 1042-1066), and Harold, earl of Wessex, had sworn agreement to that succession. However, with the death of Edward, Harold crowned himself king, leading William to mount a sea-borne invasion to assert his own right.
Landing his army on the south coast of England, he confronted Harold at Hastings, routed the Anglo-Saxon army, declared himself King William I, and ultimately established Norman hegemony over all of England.
Shortly after the Normans conquered England in 1066, William seized all of the lands, then divvied up control among those soldiers and nobles who helped him defeat the Anglo-Saxons (and keeping a fair bit for himself). However, as dramatic as that was, it is even more shocking that today, most of Britain remains in the hands of the descendants of those early Norman conquerors.
Glad to be reminded of this because I am a proud direct decedent of William the Conqueror.
William, a French speaking Viking, basically.
“Abe Lincoln was born in a log cabin that he built with his own hands.”
And Hillary named herself after Sir Edmund Hillary, because Lincoln told her to do so.
They’ve been reading Hillary’s campaign literature....
“William next invented a system according to which everybody had to belong to somebody else, and everybody else to the king. This was called the Feutile System, and in order to prove that it was true, he wrote a book called the Doomsday Book, which contained an inventory of all the Possessions of all his subjects; after reading the book through carefully William agreed with it and signed it, indicating to everybody that the Possessions mentioned in it were now his.”
Note: this topic is from 10/14/2016. Thanks harpygoddess.
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